I don’t get political.
BETTY WHITEAnimals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
More Betty White Quotes
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I’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.
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If you’re walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.
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I think older women still have a full life.
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You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, ‘Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I’m going to hear all the things I don’t want to hear.’
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I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they’re spying on somebody who doesn’t know they’re looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously – you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.
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Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I’ve devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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It’s been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven’t been away, guys. I’ve been working steadily for the last 63 years.
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If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn’t work, you’re a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn’t sound great to me!
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Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, ‘Well, I’ll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.’ And it doesn’t work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
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I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don’t get it don’t know about it.
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I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don’t appreciate it.
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I’m so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn’t choose to have children because I’m focused on my career. And I just don’t think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.
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I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.
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I really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
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I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs all the time. That’s my exercise.
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When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
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I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
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Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny.
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I’m the luckiest broad on two feet, I’ll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn’t get any good parts, so I’m blessed.
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